After pondering the question perhaps more intensely than Shakespeare's "Hamlet", I finally was persuaded to be a candidate for re-election in November of 2012 as a Delegate in the West Virginia Legislature.
This decision was made because of my firm conviction that we all have a duty to serve and to sacrifice, as well as from my personal passion to protect our personal liberties - especially those rights and responsibilities promised to us by the 1st, 2nd, and 10th Amendments of our Constitution.
Further, we must strive together to protect the common consent of the people as our gold standard of conduct.
To me, the key to our individual and family prosperity is for all of us to seek out principled leadership at all levels of government. While doing so, we all should and must work together for a reduction in senseless spending, improvident programs, and counterproductive taxes.
Recently, the following reminder from Valley Forge further persuaded me to continue to do my part as a citizen legislator, and to seek to serve another term in the West Virginia State House of Delegates:
The spirit of a lone soldier in George Washington's Continental Army, stands barefoot in the snow. Shivering in rags, hungry, and blood-stained from battle; he holds his musket in his bandaged hands.
There's fire in his eyes.
Looking over 200 years into the future, he tells all of us today:
"I gave to you a birthright of freedom, now enshrined in your Constitution, but your children graduate from high school too careless to read it. I fought in the snow, without shoes and with bloody feet, to give you the right to vote, but you stay home on election day. I left my family destitute, so you could have freedom of speech to stand up and speak out for America, but you remain silent. I orphaned my children, to give you a government endowed by God, but you have permitted others to hijack our liberty."
And so it goes, that it now is up to all of us, me and you together, to preserve our precious freedom, for which so many others have sacrificed so much.
Footnote: Please also take a moment to click on the "Why It Matters" link listed under "Videos" on the right hand side of this website.
This decision was made because of my firm conviction that we all have a duty to serve and to sacrifice, as well as from my personal passion to protect our personal liberties - especially those rights and responsibilities promised to us by the 1st, 2nd, and 10th Amendments of our Constitution.
Further, we must strive together to protect the common consent of the people as our gold standard of conduct.
To me, the key to our individual and family prosperity is for all of us to seek out principled leadership at all levels of government. While doing so, we all should and must work together for a reduction in senseless spending, improvident programs, and counterproductive taxes.
Recently, the following reminder from Valley Forge further persuaded me to continue to do my part as a citizen legislator, and to seek to serve another term in the West Virginia State House of Delegates:
The spirit of a lone soldier in George Washington's Continental Army, stands barefoot in the snow. Shivering in rags, hungry, and blood-stained from battle; he holds his musket in his bandaged hands.
There's fire in his eyes.
Looking over 200 years into the future, he tells all of us today:
"I gave to you a birthright of freedom, now enshrined in your Constitution, but your children graduate from high school too careless to read it. I fought in the snow, without shoes and with bloody feet, to give you the right to vote, but you stay home on election day. I left my family destitute, so you could have freedom of speech to stand up and speak out for America, but you remain silent. I orphaned my children, to give you a government endowed by God, but you have permitted others to hijack our liberty."
And so it goes, that it now is up to all of us, me and you together, to preserve our precious freedom, for which so many others have sacrificed so much.
Footnote: Please also take a moment to click on the "Why It Matters" link listed under "Videos" on the right hand side of this website.
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"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity,religion and morality are indispensible supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should subvert these great pillars."... George Washington
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